Don't Paint Your Living Room With These Colors... 

I was house hunting for a good two years. Almost every single house I looked at had light grey walls and grey engineered hardwood floors. The HGTVification of America is unsettling.

Have you ever considered doing a series of videos with suggestions of room colors by exposure? My specific question would be a primary bedroom with walnut furniture that has windows facing north and east....but I'm looking to repaint all my bedrooms some of which face east and some, west.

I completely agree - but I would note that taupe can read almost a mauve, depending on which direction the room faces and thereby may just not work in some spaces...

I like white never get sick of it you can put any color with it

I did entry in dusty pink, the interior living room wall dark brown. The exterior living room walls, green. The kitchen grey. The bedroom lilac, the bathroom, blue. The ceiling yellow. Gave tours all the time!

I enjoy taupe more than grey. Can't do the dirty rose or the bright peachy orange.

I love your page. I am so happy you're using Sherwin Williams today. It's my favorite paint choice.

I think Sea Salt is a perfect choice for laundry rooms and bathrooms

I'm ALLL the way with you on snowbound (no yellow undertones), but depending on the light, along with blue and greens, as accent walls OR splashes of color here and there with throw pillows, wall art, etc., so you can change it around with texture...rugs, etc!! Enjoyed watching as usual.

BTW, threshold taupe looks beautiful. Thank you for introducing the color.

I painted the main part of our home in Topsail and couldn't be happier! We are north facing and have beachy decor-- everyone who walks in says the instantly feel calm. It seems cool/warm neutral because I have natural warm wood and gray furniture and white trim/ceilings and it goes with it all.

I love your videos but still cant do taupe. The word alone reminds me of panty hose.

I'm keeping my Repose gray. Love it with everything. Taupe is retro. Had it years ago and it's tiresome.

As I live in W. WI and bluey-greens are perfect - they remind me of blue spruce.

I just love my kilim beige with white trim against darker woods/metals.

Can you possibly do an episode on paint colours to use when you dislike flooring colour and due to expense, one cannot change it? Like if you have a warm floor but prefer cooler tones and vice versa to capture many tastes? Love your channel!!

White is happy and timeless. I love Chantilly lace!

I love that Dusty Rose-beautiful colour but I would put it in a bedroom.😀

Well I’m sticking with grey, white and Smokey black. I don’t mind blue and green here & there either. Perhaps a taupe. Love this snowbound color by the way! But I’m not going anywhere near warms, well not the way these people want to anyway. I’ll go Navy, Emarld, forest, but no yellow, orange, red. There’s enough stuff I have that is warm inevitably, like wood floors or furniture. I still have antiques and hand me downs. I hated the 70’s style. I know it works for a lot of people. It’s more acceptable, more neutral while still using color. But not for me.

can not get on the taupe train at all.......yes i still love grey but I am looking at changing it up a bit by using a lighter grey than what I have now. I have considered white as well but I do worry I will get very very tired quickly of it although I know it would look good. I have decorators white on my trim. Snowbound sounds like it might be a nice white.

I appreciate your taste of paint color choices. I've been noticing how prevalent of those extremely light and earthy color applications are throughout the houses I visited. Real estate agents told me those are "safe" colors for selling homes but the colors look kind of boring to me, to be honest. I personally prefer deeper and saturated hues. And I'm glad some pro like you finally shared the same view.

I enjoy your videos and I love Snowbound! I was very close to choosing that recently for some repainting in our house. I ended up doing a blended mix of Benjamin Moore’s Dove Wing and Sherwin Williams Origami White and love how it turned out.

No color (including gray) is ever out if you love it and it works in your home. I seldom follow trends unless they suit my personal aesthetic. I do what I want. But maybe I'm a rebel lol.

I used taupe all over, in the form of Martha Stewart's Sharkey Grey (it was taupey), so now taupe's passé to me.

Can you talk abt honey oak doors and trim? Keep or paint? What color? Floors are also honey oak

Other than the white shades that I liked, I think my favorite was persimmon. I have an entryway that was done in Pennywise, a dark coppery orange which I love. I think this would be a nice transition into the area where the front stairs are.

Oh no 😅 I just painted a bedroom accent wall a saturated blue green! I’m in love with this color though, I don’t mind being dated with Durango Blue to make eyes at 😍

I have a house painted in 1980 is taupe. Hate it. Going Chantilly

Restful is very nice for a coastal lover!

High reflective white and Greek villa don’t cover at all. Plan on 4-5 coats. We do net use them

Hi James! Is Snowbound a possibility for both ceiling, walls, and trim or do you need the ceiling paint to have a higher LRV?

Love the Persimmon

I can understand why these paint colors are out of vogue. Thanks for the video.

Yay sea salt! I'm going to paint my living room sea salt! I thought of using it for my bedroom also, but it's on the north side of the house and the sample just looked dead. So disappointing, starting over.

I've always loved a darker taupe ever since I had my first apartment and then a house. The old Laura Ashley Taupe #3 which has a lot of depth and the cozy feel I like. Do you know of a quality paint company that is selling this color? For the ceiling, would you recommend 10% Taupe#3 since I don't like white? I'm looking for a cheerful color for the small galley kitchen we'll be renovating with light wood cabinets. Thanks.

We are painting the outside of the house. I wanted to make sure these colors would go well together. You seem to know so much more than me concerning color. Siding SW City Loft, Trim SW High Reflective White, and door, downspouts and metal accent roof SW Black Fox. Your thoughts??

🤔I’ve used taupe back in 2004…and 2008

I’d like a new series about bright colors

I like the Dust rose much better than the Persimmon color

how thrilling, from grey to greige.

Have you checked out Backdrop paints? They have some interesting colors, too.

Lamo, now that was good! A "great" telling us to stop buying gray and get some help

I HATE grey!! Always have!

Okay, so what colors would you paint your hallway?

Just say nope to taupe. But persimmon is interesting!

I love persimmon. But I live in a 100-yr-old house where such colors are appropriate.

Grey is house mouse

My last house was all earth tone No white Brown and tan was the thing before Grey

My whole house was painted gray including the ceiling and it was awful!! Awful! AWFUL!! I paid too much money to have someone repaint a brand new house. I don’t know who’s great idea it was to paint all the new homes by this builder gray. 😤

Dusty rose is retro 90's along with gold, dusty blue... People born in the 60's and their children that again are the millennial's

Behr Marquee is the way to go.... js

Too much groupthink for me!

No mint…..please!

Yuk! Taupe! Yuk!

No to taupe. Beige is coming back grey is out. Taupe is more like a purple grey which will quickly get dated.

Grey is boring and depressing. I hate that everyone is now using this color everywhere.

Grey is depressing and for Millenials and those that birthed them.

Gray is depressing.

Not good colors for wood trim. Don’t care for painted trim in a craftsman style home.

If you have a North/NW/NE facing room, SW White Duck is wonderful. Turns this creamy moody shade with touch of soft Gray undertones. Looks amazing with SW Pure White trim color. Be careful because it can turn totally Yellow in a SW/S facing room. It is a keeper of a color for me as a REALTOR trying to lighten up a dark home for re-sale. As for leaning into color on walls, if you are thinking of selling soon get with your REALTOR to help pick what is actually helpful in re-selling your home. STAY away from all these Mauves, Oranges, Pinks (stay away from any fleshy colors they turn off 99% of buyers and these colors can lean in on this specially Mauves) and stay away from any deep colors if you are going to sell (nobody likes deep colors on any walls no matter what you think). I don't care what any decorator says to you or what your personal preference is.. just don't waste your money on the wrong colors if you plan on selling soon! GET with your trusted local REALTOR.. they will know what works for re-sale.

I’m sick of gray

Yeah hgtv boring and uninspired